Welcome to the Forum Archive!

Years of conversation fill a ton of digital pages, and we've kept all of it accessible to browse or copy over. Whether you're looking for reveal articles for older champions, or the first time that Rammus rolled into an "OK" thread, or anything in between, you can find it here. When you're finished, check out the boards to join in the latest League of Legends discussions.

Top counter picks to Darius.

So, I don't play solo top often, but a friend of mine does, and lately he's been having a lot of issues with Darius. I'd love to give him some solid advice on how to face Darius and possibly win, but I'm at a loss. So I come to you!

Who do you like to pick to counter Darius, and in what manner are they a counter?

These are HARD counters. They have speed boosts that allow them to escape his grab and they outrange his grab range, so the speed boosts can be saved to prevent ganks. Additionally, they have other methods to counter his grab (kayle has her ult, kennen has stuns and his ult and teemo can place a shroom right under darius as soon as he grabs forcing him to either retreat or be slowed with a damage over time DoT). They counter his WHOLE kit and still perform well mid game (where darius shines) and snowball late game (where darius' power starts to stagnate).

The only melee I play that I know I'll beat Darius as is Shyvana, and that's late game, not early game.. Her overall DPS is higher than his, and she has innate defense. But there are others who beat him easily, melee or ranged.

The main thing with Darius is that you have to know whether an engagement is worth it or not. Almost every fight against Darius, you're initiating on him, which is what he wants since he can't initiate fights himself.

Pretty much...range counters Darius
Even a GP just hanging back and abusing Parrrrley could easy keep him at bay. Darius lacks any real gap closer, his E has a long cool down and a short range. Just keeping your distance...hell during an ELO hell session I was solo top Caitlyn and I made him a very unhappy man during the laning phase. He's not as strong as people think.

As previous posters said, range counters Darius pretty hard. Kayle top isn't a fun matchup for him because she can kite him all day, every day. You can also use lategame bruisers like Warwick and Olaf. Since Darius has no sustain, Olaf's Q can whittle him down until he either backs off or you come in to murder him when he's low. Warwick can build two or three doran's rings and sit under his tower all day, every time Darius pulls you in hit him with a Q and run away. You can get your health back in about twenty seconds, he can't. When he's at about 30% health, hit him with your ult, ignite, and a Q when the ult ends, he should now be dead.

For melees, Renekton, If you're really really good at him - Tryndamere can, Cho can due to ranged poke and huge sustain. Xin Zhao can if you're overly aggressive when it's smart to be (levels 1-5 then playing really smart post 6. Get crazy if you can bait his Q and he misses it while hes on cooldowns., etc)

Udyr cause tiger udyr pretty much goes even or wins every single lane ever. I wanna say poppy can before 6 but post 6 its really hard. Lee can go either way based on the first 4 levels.